Diet Soda Or Energy Drink

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Diet soda or energy drink. These ingredients may provide health benefits but they may not be safe for some people. Sugar sweetened drinks like soda juice or sports drinks are the top source of added sugars in the american diet reports the u s. Some types of diet soda are even fortified with vitamins and minerals.

However monster contains ingredients not found in soda. Soda juice and energy drinks are some of the worst offenders when it comes to your diet because of the extremely high sugar content and acidity explains dr. A 12 ounce can of soda packs approximately 140 calories and around 10 teaspoons of sugar while this may not seem necessarily good at first compared to the sugar content of other drinks on the market this is nothing.

The artificial sweeteners and other chemicals currently used in diet soda are safe for most people and there s no credible evidence that these ingredients cause cancer. But diet soda isn t a health drink or a silver bullet for weight loss. Beverages with added sugar sucrose high fructose corn syrup and other sweeteners such as soda fruit drinks sports drinks energy drinks and sweetened waters have been under scrutiny.

Diet alternatively marketed as sugar free zero calorie or low calorie drinks or light drinks are sugar free artificially sweetened versions of carbonated beverages with virtually no calories they are generally marketed toward health conscious people diabetics athletes and other people who want to lose weight improve physical fitness or reduce their sugar intake. Diet drinks not only offer no nutritional value but also low or no calorie artificially sweetened beverages like diet soda may harm your health in various ways. Rohit chandra child and adult psychiatrist at massachusetts general hospital chelsea and instructor in psychiatry at harvard medical school.

Regular soda the good. Energy drinks may have different effects on heart health and blood pressure than drinks with caffeine like coffee and soda a study suggests. Energy drinks like monster are popular and some people are under the impression that they are healthier than soda.